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PTO Newsletter - January 4, 2015

Happy New Year! As a first year charter school, I am so proud and pleased that Thunderbird Preparatory Academy has already received much recognition throughout our community for its remarkable success in just half a year. My heart feels such joy knowing that our children are happy while flourishing to become leaders. I am so grateful to our amazing staff who endured the growing pains of opening a new school and have grown as leaders. We hired the best and they truly are shining stars. I also feel so very grateful to our parents. I personally have felt your support and so has our staff. We are all learning and growing together. My commitment in providing a top notch education for your child remains my primary focus.

I hope you are enjoying the PTO’s monthly newsletter. Please click on this link to find the calendar of school events. You don’t want to miss out! On the first Sunday of every month you will receive the PTO newsletter along with the calendar. Every Sunday you will receive a short email notice with highlights and reminders from me. Enjoy the second half of the year.

– Patty Moreira, Managing Director/Principal

Sunday: Email from principal & Classroom Teacher Newsletter

Tuesday: Tuesday Folders go home with students

Upcoming Events

Souper Bowl for Teachers Fri Jan 30th. Students wear favorite university or professional sports team jersey/shirt

Jan 9th Box Top Collection
Please see below for December box top collection results!

PTO Meeting Tuesday, Jan. 13 at 5:30 pm

Book Fair Jan. 13, 14, 15 from 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm.

Curriculum Night Drop In same time,
Jan.13-15, 6:30-7:30.
K on the 13th,
1-2 on the 14th,
3-4 on the 15th. Board Members will be present each night for a Q&A.

Davidson Community Players and Thunderbird Drama Ensemble present:

Golly Gee Whiz
January 24 at 1pm and 4pm
January 25 at 2pm
Armour Street TheaterFree

Thanks to all Parents,Students and Staff for collecting to help TPA. As a reward, we are giving the top collecting classes from each grade an Ice Dream treat from Chick-fil-A ! The Winning classes are listed below:Congratulations Winning Classes, enjoy your reward !!!!! Kindergarten- McCrawFirst- SlatterySecond- Riley **Third- RealeFourth-Curley** Top Collecting Class - Way To go Riley Students!!!

We hope you had a nice holiday break.

In this issue of the newsletter, we have a lot of exciting events and news to share with you. Please read the newsletter and contact us if you have any questions.

Our families have donated hundreds of canned and boxed food items that were delivered to the Loaves and Fishes food pantry. Thank you for helping to make a difference in our community.

Julien Evering and Will Morgan are pictured above.

Business Spotlight

Have you ever wondered why our outdoor area looks so nice and well-maintained? Brandon Morris, with Mint Landscaping, is a TPA parent who volunteers his services, such as mowing, leaf blowing, and other landscaping for the school's exterior space. During the holiday break, he sent a crew to mow, blow turf and do an entire clean up for the parking area, including trimming all of the shrubs. Thank you, Brandon and Mint Landscaping, for making everything look good for the new year!

The Thunderbird Prep PTO is developing a corporate sponsorship program that will create a partnership between our local community and our school. We believe this can be a win-win for our school, students and businesses.

We would first like to identify TPA parents that are personally involved with businesses that may be willing to partner with our school. Some examples of needs we may have throughout the school year are gift cards to use as prizes for events, photography, landscaping, food/supplies for events, school materials, building supplies, a location to host an event or program, and much more. We would love to call on the interests, talents and strengths of our parents before we look elsewhere.

The PTO will also be creating a direct sponsorship program in the near future. This program will offer the opportunity for businesses to sponsor a specific program, event or curriculum need. In exchange, the business would receive promotional pieces such a newsletter advertising, acknowledgement at the event when applicable and signage at the school or at an event. We will need sponsors for our Spring 5K and fun run, in particular.